The final conference of the LEADER project was held at ANPAL's headquarters in Rome on 27 June.On the conference page you can see a short video of the event, download the materials presented during the conference sessions and browse the photogallery containing the salient phases of the day.Click here to go to the page dedicated to the LE.A.DE.R final project conference.

On Thursday 17th November, CASCAID, iCeGS at the University of Derby, Pluriversum, Educaweb together with the ELGPN presented the LEarning And Decision making Resources (LEADER) project to participants of the International Association of Educational and Vocational Guidance (IAEVG) conference in Madrid.

The LEADER project involves a number of partners who are working together to develop and test a career management skills (CMS) framework across partner countries including; Italy, Greece, Romania, Turkey, Spain and the United Kingdom.

The Career Management Skills (CMS) are those skills that every person must have to manage independently and consciously their choices of study and work. Reflection on this issue is a fundamental element in the organization of guidance services, in order to guarantee every student and every person in life transitions phases the adequate guidance pathways to make the right step, to select the best opportunities, to apply effectively for jobs.

For this purpose the LE.A.DE.R. Project partnership has started a testing phase of the model, with identification of "pilot actions" in each country involved, in order to integrate the Career Management Skills framework as part of the main guidance services, from schools to employment offices, from professional training to guidance and placement services of the universities.

If you have partecipated to LE.A.DE.R project pilot actions about the dissemination of a reference framework on the CAREER MANAGEMENT SKILLS (CMS), you can fill out this questionnaire. Thanks to your feedback about the model and the territorial actions, it will be possible to identify activities, routes and tools consistent with the framework.

On 4th October 2016 was held the second International Conference of the LE.A.DE.R Project in Athens organized by Athens University of Economics and Business – AUEB named "Lifelong guidance in Europe: The shift to Career Management Skills Development".

Europe has centered lifelong guidance policies on the concept of Career Management Skills (CMS), which identifies the skills that each person should have to manage autonomously and consciously their choices of study and work.The theme of Career Management Skills is crucial to design and organize the guidance services, in order to guarantee every student and every person in the moment of transition and choise useful guidance and advise to make the right step, to select the best opportunities, to apply effectively a new job.

The International conference in Athens, on 4th October 2016, about "Lifelong guidance in Europe" will be a great opportunity for teachers, guidance practitioners, educators, tutors and trainers to share the perspectives of career guidance at the European level.

The LE.A.DE.R. project (Learning and Decision Making Resources) will reach its next step in Athens from 3rd to 7th October 2016 for the second international training of practitioners. It will be a great opportunity for guidance professionals from the partner countries to meet local practitioners, share ideas and new career guidance models and to discuss about the future of the guidance services at the European level in this period of major changes and uncertainty.

The LE.A.DE.R. project (Learning and Decision Making Resources) has organized its first International Training session in Barcelona (11-15 April 2016) as an opportunity for esperts, teachers and practitioners to share ideas and tools with the intention to design an experimentation aimed at building a European framework for Career Management Skills and to test guidance services within this context.

Each year the University of Camerino offers many guidance activities to Secondary Schools to be performed both at school and the University. Definitively, one of the most successful activity among the students attending the last two years is "Stage in Unicam," a 3 days event which allows students to experience university life and the study courses they are interested in.

The reduction of the dropout represents, at the moment, a big point of attention for all the institutions. In Italy, the percentage of population with a high level of education is dramatically lower with respect to other UE countries. The Europe 2020 strategy for growth includes strategies to improve the educational levels.